April 30th 2018
Brave New World Revisited. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley, Famous Last Words (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Brave New World Revisited. Aldous Huxley. 1958. ISBN 0795300166. Twenty-seven years after writing Brave New World , Huxley revisited his despairing view of the world trends and found that the downward spiral had accelerated. People were entranced by TV so that “amusing themselves to death” was trivializing history, politics and journalism. Propaganda was replacing truth and repeating a lie often enough was a set policy. Demagogues and dictatorships were following his cookbook for control. Creation of short sound bites had replaced intelligent discourse. A president was reduced to a TV personality . The pursuit of recreation had supplanted most of the non working life. The power elites were grabbing more of the wealth and control with the disparity tween top and the rest widening. What is telling is this was in 1958 and if he was alive today and saw the state of the US and other large countries he would not be surprised. A thinking person should be quite taken with his prescience. Every educated person should read this and Brave New World. An easy read but also disquieting.
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